When Twitter came out, I was not convinced. I’ve been blogging for a while and I’ve seen other short form content creation platforms come and go. I worked in Yahoo on Messenger and the front page and ...

In recent times a meme has been making the rounds that allegedly shows a smart way to solve interview puzzles. In these memes developers are asked to create an ASCII pattern like the following: The ...

Ok, using YQL and playing around with the console can make you go a bit too far. That made we wonder why we really have to care about the detection of a feed but instead use it when it is there and ...

I was asked by some German friends if I knew something about Flash and Accessibility for a German podcast, and I said yes, but most of it is hearsay and some testing some years ago. I remembered ...

After 25 years of working for, on and with the web, I am looking at the current state of it and I don’t like it. There is still a lot of beautiful, creative and amazing work out there, but on the ...

The current blow to the open web that is the Net Neutrality ruling feels terrible to me. My generation saw the web emerge and many of us owe our careers to it. I am not surprised that it came to this.

As part of the re-write of The Developer Advocacy Handbook I needed to have blockquotes with different classes. With GitHub Pages markdown you can do that using the > notation: > **Fact:** There are ...

OK, it is not the end of the world yet, but a leaked screenshot of the latest Yahoo all-hands shows that delicious has no bright future in the company. So in order to preserve the years of work I put ...

Der Computer Club Graz schreibt für den C 64 Programme, die Behinderten das Leben erleichtern. Mit der Symbolsprache Bliss ist fur Behinderte sogar ein Schreiben von Briefen moglich. Jeder, der ein ...

It might be a good idea to define this as a preset in the beginning of your style sheet, to avoid the need to repeat it over and over again. Also notice that the setting is “border:none”, which tells ...

Things that made me happy this morning (well technically it is morning and the aftermath of the BBC party): ...